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U.N. will help, but not discuss, Afghan peace talks
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 24 - 10 - 2010

Qa'dah 16, 1431 H/Oct 24, 2010, SPA -- The United Nations' top diplomat in Afghanistan said on Sunday he will help with efforts to find a negotiated end to a war he believes has no military solution, but he will not discuss progress.
Staffan de Mistura, special representative for the U.N. secretary-general, also said he thought a resolution to the war was in sight but the final stage of any negotiations was the most perilous, and warned that talks had to be an Afghan-only effort, according to Reuters.
"We will do all what we can to help, and we will not be talking about it, because these things you don't talk about, but it is an Afghan solution," he said in the western city of Herat, the day after a U.N. office was attacked by suicide bombers.
There were no deaths in the attack, and no U.N. staff were wounded.
"We can only put the wind in the sail if they need it, but the boat is Afghan," he added.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has long advocated talking to the Taliban, and there is a growing sense both at home and among many of the nations that support him with money and forces that negotiations may be the only route to peace.
De Mistura said he had taken up his post in Afghanistan because the country "needs and deserves a reconciliation", and talks were ultimately the only way to end the fighting.
"There is no military solution to this conflict," he said, but warned it would not be an easy process.
"When you are getting not far away from peace, normally it is the most delicate, dangerous moment," he said.
"It's like the last 500 metres of a mountain, they are the most dangerous, the most difficult, and you can fall but you see the mountain and you are getting close to it and that is where I feel we are in Afghanistan."
Karzai says his government has made preliminary contacts with Taliban insurgents as Afghan, U.S. and NATO officials look for a possible negotiated exit to a war now entering its 10th year.


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